I’m someone who likes finding some new challenges for myself every now and again. I like new stimuli since I can otherwise stagnate, so when my friend, Jason, let me know he was putting together an obstacle trail race to benefit The Wounded Warrior Project, I was 100% game on. OK, maybe more like 99% [...]
Posts Tagged determination
It’s a lovely day here in New England… well, I mean it’s lovely if you look past the massive power outages, electrical wires draped across road, trees smashing into cars and the prospect of no electricity for up to week. But beyond all that, it’s a lovely day in… October. I need to re-check my [...]
So I am doing my utmost right now to actually be smart. I know, I know… why start something so radically different for myself now? Isn’t it a little late to show up to that party? Probably, but I’m also a crazy dreamer. My decision to engage the rational and logical parts of my brain [...]
Staring Into the Abyss
Aug 11
An interesting thing often occurs when I sit down to write up almost any blog post I do… a gnawing sort of feeling that, even though I may like what I’m writing, I haven’t the slightest clue whether it will resonate with a single soul out there on Teh Interwebz. Needless to say, that can [...]
This distinguished-looking fellow on the left is one John Calvin and let me tell you something… I’m never going to invite him to a party at my house for 2 very important reasons. First, he’s dead. That truly puts a damper on any real chance of an invite to Chez Kuzia outside of some kind [...]
Overcoming Our Intellect
May 22
Greetings from 35,000ish feet. I’m on my way back from Florida and despite the cramped conditions in coach here on Delta Flight 1580 from Atlanta to Hartford, I figured I would bust out my laptop and have at it. As I wrote in my previous post, when I am out of my regular locale [...]
In exploring the connection of mind, body and spirit, I am a bit fascinated by the moment of surrender. It’s not from a morbid sense of curiosity, but more from the vantage of why does it happen when it happens. What causes us to stop? To relent? To “No mas” a la Roberto Duran? It [...]
Fight the Fear
Feb 27
I like to be fairly regimented with the training schedule I keep and do my best not to skip days because of some lousy excuse I came up with on the fly. Missed sessions (I try never to call it “work outs” because that tends to sound more random and unplanned) have a cumulative effect [...]
Last night was the third game of the basketball league I just got involved in after not playing at all for several years. While I have been in some of the best shape of my life of late… well… let’s just say my hoop skills are not what they once were. I mean, not even [...]
JK Rowling on Failure
Jan 31
A fairly old adage says that the two unavoidable things in life are death and taxes. I actually can think of two other events that fit the parameters of being unavoidable: change and failure. Quite a list there, eh? Death, taxes, change and failure. Possibly four of the greatest fears most people probably have. I [...]
